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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters 1 is the first of a four part mini series by IDW Publishing which crosses-over the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with the characters from the Ghostbusters universe.

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When a new invention goes haywire, the Turtles are sent to a whole new type of New York City. One with a whole lot more ghosts... and Ghostbusters! The two teams will have to learn to get along quickly, because a new foe from the Turtles past has followed them and aims to conquer NYC! [2]

On June 16, 2014, Tristan Jones posted a work in progress of the original four Ghostbusters and only hinted it was "for something special." [3]

On July 15, 2014, IDW Publishing issued a press release revealing the new mini series in conjunction with both franchises' 30th anniversaries. [4] IDW's October checklist revealed there will be a variant cover by Kevin Eastman. [5]

On July 18, 2014, Erik Burnham reaffirmed this story is a continuation of the ongoing series' canon. [7]

On July 23, 2014, Erik Burnham confirmed he and Tom Waltz finished the first draft the previous week. [8]

On July 25, 2014, in an interview, Erik Burnham revealed Donatello has access to Fugitoid's inter-dimensional transporter plans and tries to build one for himself. He does and it works. It sends the Turtles to the right location in New York, but the wrong New York entirely. The four Turtles, Casey, April, the Ghostbusters, Janine Melnitz and Kylie Griffin will appear. There will be a cameo here and there. Tom Waltz has a plan for the "TMNT" series so he and Burnham mined the idea for the villain from that continuity. The villain is connected to another Turtles character and is trapped in a dimensional portal; when he's set free (in the Ghostbusters universe) and he has some decidedly ghost-like abilities. [9]

On August 5, 2014, in an interview, Erik Burnham hinted a reference in Issue #1 will have readers going to Wikipedia. [10]

On August 15, 2014, in an interview, Erik Burnham expanded on working directly with Tom Waltz on the scripts. They got the plot hammered out, got input from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles editor Bobby Curnow, Burnham did the first draft, Waltz did a pass, and lastly Burnham makes any tweaks not related specifically Waltz and Curnow's threads for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ongoing series. Burnham cites he and Waltz came up with the idea of this crossover at San Diego Comic Con 2012 but were thinking about it in general for years. [11]

On August 27, 2014, Dan Schoening revealed he tweaked the designs of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles so that Raphael is the bulkiest, Michelangelo is smaller than the rest, and Donatello has a bigger cranium than the others. Schoening also revealed he's penciled up to page 5 currently. [12]

On September 10, 2014, Dan Schoening posted first designs for Casey Jones but noted this won't be the final version seen in the mini-series. [18]

On September 11, 2014, Erik Burnham announced Issue #1 was complete and it has one of his favorite Peter Venkman lines. [19]

On September 12, 2014, Dan Schoening posted a design for Splinter. [20]

On September 13, 2014, it was revealed there will be retailer exclusive covers for Issue #1. [21][22] A Glow in the Dark Heroes Haven Comics Exclusive by Ozzy Fernandez and Tony Kordos and Virginia Comic Con exclusives by Matt Slay. The Virginia Comic Con exclusives will be a red foil edition limited to 1,000 copies and a gold foil edition limited to 250 copies. They will be available on November 22-23, 2014 at the Richmond International Raceway, where the convention is being held.

On September 15, 2014, Brent Peeples revealed a preview of a RE cover he did for Hastings Retailer. [23]

On September 19, 2014, Brent Peeples revealed original art for his RE Cover. [24]

On October 15, 2014, IDW revealed Ronda Pattison is the colorist for Kevin Eastman's RI cover. [27]Bobby Curnow revealed the Rat King will appear in one panel in Issue #1 and is drawn by Charles Paul Wilson III. [28] Curnow revealed Wilson will draw something like 4 pages set in the past, Cory Smith will draw 3 pages set in the present of the TMNT/IDW universe, and the rest is by Dan Schoening. [29]

On October 18, 2014, a preview was released by Comic Book Resources revealing the name of the primary villain of the mini-series. [30]

On October 25, 2014, Emilio Lopez revealed he colored the Awesome Con cover. He also used color swatches from the original Turtle models from the 2003 animated series, from which he worked on, and made the ghosts look similar to something you might see on the show. [31][32]

On October 28, 2014, it was reported Issue #1 was going into second printing of 2000 copies after the initial print run of 30,573 sold out. [33] The second printing will release on December 3, 2014. [34]

On November 1, 2014, Erik Burnham stated the crossover series takes place a few months after the events of the "Mass Hysteria!" arc. [35]

The panels depicting the three immortals in ancient times reappears in IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #46.

Page 2

Kitsune's connection to Krang in Muromachi Period Japan was revealed in the Secret History of the Foot Clan mini-series.

Krang went by Tetsu Oni (or Iron Demon) during that era as revealed in the Secret History of the Foot Clan mini-series.

Page 4

The game Chi-You talks about was first mentioned in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #36 by the Rat King.

Page 5

Krang asks Kitsune if the area they discussed was cleared of the people living in it. This may refer to Secret History of the Foot Clan #1 where land was razed and seized during the Takeshi Tatsuo led-era of the Foot Clan for Krang.

Page 6

Donatello refers to the Fugitoid, an ally of the Turtles.

Page 8

Casey Jones' mentioning 'he's seen that movie before' is a nod to "The Fly" which involved similar story beats - a teleporter, a fly, and things going awry.

Between Luis' brother and Wellington is Bobby Curnow, a writer and editor at IDW (who is editing this miniseries).

The woman next to Luis' father in the first row and the man behind her in the third row are friends of Luis' brother, Raquel and Wellington respectively.

Page 16

Leonardo alludes to the Ninja Turtles time travel adventures, chronicled in the recent Turtles in Time mini-series.

Page 17

Raphael's "Head's up, flattop" line is almost a callback to Peter Venkman's "Aim for the flattop!" in the first Ghostbusters movie. [46]

Page 18

Luis Delgado's 15 easter egg appears in panel 1 on the back the pew nearest Michelangelo in the lower right corner.

Page 21

The possessed human near April in panel 5 appears to be visually based on Rob Paulsen, voice of Raphael on the 80s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series and Donatello on the current Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles CGI animated series.

Page 22

Luis Delgado's 15 easter egg, in roman numeral, appears on a brick near Winston's left shoulder